Trump Orders Navy to Restore Old Technology in Aircraft Carriers, Costing Billions  —  The Navy spent years fighting the president's push to go back to steam catapults  —  President Trump has directed the Navy to tear out a complex system for launching jet fighters from its aircraft carriers …

Trump officials ask Supreme Court to let ballroom construction continue  —  The request escalates the legal fight over the controversial project to the nation's highest court.  —  Summary  —  The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for it to complete …

Woman arrested after second world war memorial in DC vandalized  —  Suspect faces two felony charges after memorial filled with bubbles and spray-paint reading ‘Clean hands Dirty $’  —  A woman was arrested on Friday morning in connection with the vandalization of the second world war memorial …

Top Trump official asked for more resources to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch  —  Michael Boren, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, asked for more aircraft to contain a 7-acre blaze last month, officials said.  —  Summary  —  Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources …

Can Polls Measure the True Strength of the Left?  —  Recent polling issues could continue in Democratic primaries in part because progressives are more likely to enjoy taking surveys.  —  Progressives had high hopes of dominant victories in marquee primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin …

U.S. to use economic tactics on Iran ‘that have never been seen’; Navy works to relieve troubled carrier USS Abraham Lincoln … The U.S. will be applying economic measures “that have never been seen on Iran,” according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.  —  “It will be a combination …

How Trump's Unprecedented Effort to Prosecute Noncitizen Voters Fell Apart  —  Reporting Highlights  — Inflated Claims: HSI deployed its tech platform to find noncitizens on voter rolls, despite warnings from agency insiders that it would lead to an “ungodly” number of false positives.

Little Thefts, Big Charges: Trump's Justice Dept. Targets Lesser Fraud  —  As the Trump administration drops charges against corporations and the wealthy, it is also taking aim at small-scale fraud cases, including against the operator of a weathered food truck in California.

Drunk Trump Aide Busted Playing With Sex Toy in Bizarre Video  —  NOT SAFE FOR WORK  —  The longtime Trump aide was caught having a little too much fun.  —  A deputy assistant to President Donald Trump was caught on camera drunkenly playing around with a sex toy hours after attending a children's hospital benefit gala at Mar-a-Lago.

Reform UK's Nigel Farage beats a slate of fringe candidates in election boycotted by major parties  —  Nigel Farage regained his seat in Parliament on Friday, beating a field of fringe candidates led by trash-can-wearing comic Count Binface in a special election boycotted by mainstream parties that called it a farce.

It's not just young Democrats who like lefty candidates  —  I have published four long articles this week — and done approximately one trillion interviews about the primary polls in Wisconsin and elsewhere (and recording for NPR's Weekend Edition today) — and am quite tired.

Small Businesses Despise Trump's Tariffs — For Good Reason  —  Mere hours after the Trump administration's latest tariff scheme launched on July 24, the government was sued again by the same small businesses that had already defeated prior White House tariff shenanigans, most notably at the Supreme Court.

Goodbye, You Poisonous Fucking Fraud  —  Karoline Leavitt, that evil lying bitch, is leaving the White House.  —  Good.  —  The most repulsively mendacious, soul-insolvent Trump-era skank ever to plant herself behind that podium, open the festering sewage aperture of her foul mouth …

The presumption of irregularity  —  There has been lots of talk in recent months, including from federal judges, about the ways in which the Department of Justice has lost the “presumption of regularity” that is generally afforded to government lawyers.  —  This week has raised …

Flock announces changes amid backlash over its license plate reader network  —  Flock Safety, the surveillance technology company increasingly under scrutiny from lawmakers from both parties, civil liberties advocates and citizens across the U.S., announced Thursday that it is making changes …

Retail sales unexpectedly fall in July as government tax refunds fade  —  Americans unexpectedly cut their spending in July as a boost from government tax refunds faded.  Retail sales slipped 0.6% last month, the biggest drop since May 2025, from a revised gain of 0.2% in June, according to Commerce Department data released Friday.

Four Things State and Local Prosecutors Can Do to Combat Federal Corruption  —  On Monday, the president's former personal lawyer was sworn in as the country's top lawyer.  As the history books will note, by all appearances, Attorney General Todd Blanche got the job because of his fealty …

Olympian Asks Court to Bar Prosecutors From Reviving Reflecting Pool Charges  —  Citing comments by President Trump, David Hearn raised the prospect of “prosecutorial harassment.”  —  Lawyers for the former Olympian David Hearn filed a motion on Thursday night seeking to bar federal prosecutors …

Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’  —  Israeli PM criticised by political rival for attacking an international ally and overseeing ‘horrific diplomatic failure’  —  The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called the UK …

UK a ‘tinderbox’, says Burnham, as he calls in military and bans disposable barbecues - UK politics live  —  PM also says fire and rescue services will be given more cash  —  Burnham calls in military and bans disposable barbecues as wildfires burn in heatwave  —  Futile Clacton byelection has done Farage no favours

Hugh Hefner reported Jeffrey Epstein to FBI for alleged rape of Playboy Playmate  —  Editor's Note: This story contains discussions of rape or sexual assault that may be disturbing.  Reader discretion is advised.  If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted …

Judge drops Nevada case against electors accused of forging certificate in 2020 election  —  The yearslong case against six Nevada Republicans who were accused of submitting a bogus certificate that falsely declared Donald Trump the winner of the state's 2020 presidential election has been dismissed, a judge ruled Thursday.

U.S. ambassador calls settler siege of Palestinian homes a ‘horrific act of terror’  —  JERUSALEM — The U.S. Ambassador to Israel condemned the actions of Jewish settlers who are besieging the home of an American Palestinian family in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Trump stops short of endorsing Bibi as his campaign falters  —  When Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump met in the Oval Office two weeks ago, the president asked the Israeli prime minister how he was doing in the polls ahead of an Oct. 27 election.  — Netanyahu paused.

US Presses Allies on Ideological Loyalty Ahead of Troop Cuts  —  The US wants to know how loyal each NATO ally is to Donald Trump's policies before cutting military assets defending the alliance.  —  In a document recently sent to North Atlantic Treaty Organization members and seen by Bloomberg News …